Viola Davis Quotes
It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.... Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.... Finally, the nation is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willing to die for such limited imaginings.
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We’re living in the age of discovery. I think it is almost more exciting to release music with newer artists.
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I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.
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It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
